Sharabi (Hagashi), Shalom
Son of Miriam and Abraham, was born in 1930 in the city of Shar’ab, Yemen, where he studied in the Beit Midrash, and where he was orphaned. In 1943 he immigrated and was admitted to the children’s village Meir Shfeya, where he moved to the “Torah and Melacha” yeshiva in Kfar Avraham near Petah Tikva, and in 1945 began working as a construction worker, especially as a plasterer, a profession he specialized in Tel Aviv. Upon the establishment of the State of Israel, he enlisted with his comrades in the Israel Defense Forces, served in the Alexandroni Brigade and fell in a position near Kfar Hess on November 26, 1948. He was laid to rest in the military cemetery at Nahalat Yitzhak.